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  2. List of archaeoastronomical sites by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) jointly published a thematic study on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy to be used as a guide to UNESCO in its evaluation of the cultural importance of archaeoastronomical ...

  3. Archaeoastronomy - Wikipedia

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    The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice.. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [1] or multidisciplinary [2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". [3]

  4. Cultural astronomy - Wikipedia

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    It developed from the two interdisciplinary fields of archaeoastronomy, the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations, and ethnoastronomy, "a closely allied research field which merges astronomy, textual scholarship, ethnology, and the interpretation of ancient iconography for the purpose of reconstructing ...

  5. List of artifacts significant to archaeoastronomy - Wikipedia

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    Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave – carved mammoth tusk 'plate' with proposed figurative asterism; combined with notched denotations relating to time-reckoning. The cave is in the Swabian Jura, Germany.

  6. Astronomical complex - Wikipedia

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    An astronomical complex or commemorative astronomical complex is a series of man-made structures with an astronomical purpose. It has been used when referring to a group of Megalithic structures that it is claimed show high precision astronomical alignments.

  7. List of wealthiest charitable foundations - Wikipedia

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    Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 36 Children's Investment Fund Foundation United Kingdom: London: $5.9 billion £5.2 billion 2002 [37] 37 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation United States: Westlake Village, California: $5.9 billion 1944 [38] 38 Nemours Foundation United States: Jacksonville: $4.6 billion ...

  8. Foundation for Africa - Wikipedia

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    The association every time provide pharmaceutical and food donations for hospitals. The foundation has connection with the SDA Clinic Foundation, the Hospital Kimpese, the Hospital Kibandai, Hospital Bangu, the Clinique Mondial, and other institutes, in Kinshasa and in the countryside, rural villages and smaller towns too of course measure the ...

  9. Anthony Aveni - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Francis Aveni (born 1938) is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and contributions to the fields of archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy.